article thumbnail

Suicide is Second-Leading Cause of Death Among College Athletes

Drug Topics

Researchers examined the suicide rates of NCAA student-athletes from 2002 to 2022.

112
112
article thumbnail

First patient receives new engineered mRNA epigenetic

European Pharmaceutical Review

revealed the first patient to be dosed with OTX-2002, the first programmable mRNA therapeutic for c-Myc (MYC) oncogene overexpression, which targets cancer cells while sparing healthy cells. OTX-2002 is delivered via lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) and controls the expression of specific genes using epigenetics, a new era of medicine. .

111
111
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

Leprosy potentially endemic in Central Florida

Pharmaceutical Technology

The proportion of cases found in migrants to Florida has decreased significantly since 2002 while cases in US residents has risen.

98
article thumbnail

STAT+: Intellia says CRISPR treatment safely corrects DNA of six patients with rare disease

STAT

Preliminary results from the study — just the second to show that CRISPR-based gene editing can be delivered systemically and performed in vivo, or inside the body — found that the treatment, NTLA-2002, reduced levels of the disease-causing protein, kallikrein, by 65% and 92% in the low- and high-dose cohort, respectively.

131
131
article thumbnail

Omega Therapeutics Entered into a Clinical Supply Agreement with Roche to Evaluate OTX-2002 for Hepatocellular Carcinoma

PharmaShots

Shots: The companies collaborated to evaluate the safety, tolerability, PK, PD & preliminary antitumor activity of OTX-2002 as monotx. The preliminary results from the monotx.

article thumbnail

Opinion: What Rosalynn Carter understood about mental health

STAT

Often she was called upon to guide, inform, or brainstorm, as she did in 2002 when Mike Hogan, chair of President George W.

133
133
article thumbnail

Scientists are finding increasing evidence for a link between air pollution and neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s

STAT

In 2002, toxicologist and neuropathologist Lilian Calderón-Garcidueñas, who grew up east of the metropolis and attended medical school in the city, decided to look at the brains of 40 dogs that had lived either in the city’s polluted valley or in the cleaner air of Tlaxcala, a state on its eastern edge.